Yesterday I stumbled upon a piece of software called Inner Space which allows fairly simple manipulation of D3d8/9 games. It's limited, but they're on the right track with it. However, it's commercial and closed source (smart idea, it's a tough thing to pull off and there are plenty of gamers willing to pay for an edge), and I'd rather an open source framework I can hack on.
I'd like to start collecting ideas for a generic application hacking framework. Here's a list of what I've thought up so far. If you don't see something you'd like, please drop me a comment.
- Stealthy code injection via selectable means
- GUI injection on GDI/OpenGL/D3D9
- Screenscraping automation (select a region containing the data you want and map different possible images (e.g. card suits in a poker bot) to different values that can be used from code)
- Managed instance launching and intercommunication
- Easy network/file interception (this could be used to use a different proxy for each running instance of an application, for instance)
I'm sure I've missed a few, but I'll be updating this to add new ideas of my own and your contributions, so please send in your ideas.
Happy Hacking,
~ dieken
